“There has, for a very long time, an Internet backlash against Monty Python, partially fueled by the fact that the group “ceased to be” long before most of the people quoting them were born.”

Curious. Do these backlashers refer to spam as ‘unsolicited commercial email’? Do they refuse to use Google or any other site that uses the language Python? (No, it’s not named after the snake.) Claiming that there is an internet backlash against Monty Python is like complaining that Shakespeare’s writing is full of cliches. (You may know of Shakespeare, although he ‘ceased to be’ long before we were born.)

The Internet was built by Monty Python fans. Backlash away. But off my lawn, please.

This reminds me of the scene in Gilliam’s masterpiece ‘Brazil’ in which DeNiro’s charismatic answer man Harry Tuttle introduces himself to Jonathan Price’s flummoxed (and, it turns out, also multi-faceted) Sam Lowry. I don’t think any were shrubberies involved, but ducts (ducts) were well represented!